New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Pioneering pop perennials Sparks - Ron and Russell Mael - lift the lid on their new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, with the release of "Self-Effacing" in which the evergreen masters of the musical vignette show no loss of appetite for their singular sonic adventures. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip will be available on multiple formats including CD, picture disc, and cassette.
The track-listing for A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip - which was recorded in Los Angeles - reveals that the song, Please Don't f Up My World, released in December, also features on this new album.
A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip tracklisting:
01 All That
02 I'm Toast
03 Lawnmower
04 Sainthood Is Not In Your Future
05 Pacific Standard Time
06 Stravinsky's Only Hit
07 Left Out In The Cold
08 Self-Effacing
09 One For The Ages
10 Onomato Pia
11 iPhone
12 The Existential Threat
13 Nothing Travel Faster Than The
Speed Of Light
14 Please Don't f Up My World
2020 will also see Sparks and their band embarking on a short run of dates in October 2020, before an extended world tour in 2021. Also due to be released are the Sparks-written musical feature film Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard and directed by Leos Carax (Holy Motors), and the currently-untitled Sparks documentary directed by Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Spaced).
October 2020 European tour dates:
11 - Norway, Oslo,
Rockefeller Music Hall
12 - Sweden, Stockholm, Cirkus
14 - Denmark, Copenhagen, The Koncerthuset
15 - Germany, Berlin, Metropol
17 - Netherlands, Amsterdam, Paradiso
18 - Belgium, Brussels, AB Flex
20 - France, Paris, Casino de Paris
21 - UK, London, Roundhouse
23 - UK, Manchester, Albert Hall
24 - UK, Glasgow, The Barrowland Ballroom
26 - UK, Belfast,
Limelight Club
27 - IRE, Dublin, Vicar Street